Here is a list of issues by salience and how well trusted we are. Surely there is room for movement on some of these that has nothing to do with being racist.
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Kind of wild to see republicans more trusted on economic issues (rated as most important!) despite their manifest incompetence on that front. That does feel like an opportunity if dems can break the media maxim that Republicans are “fiscally responsible”.
I guess we should give up on some of the more unpopular egalitarian reforms (we've basically retreated on affirmative action, stop talking about destreaming). And then what?
Hope that Republicans start doing budget cuts again?
Oh you meant on education specifically? Yeah I think being firmly pro tracking is an obvious one. I think in general a more Obama-style approach where charters are good, early childhood investment is a big deal, etc seems pretty doable?
Charters are interesting, b/c under the hood they've changed from "failing district need competition" to "give ungodly amount of money to unregulated religious schools"
And I guess we need to refocus on phonics, basic instruction, things like that.
it’s the FF slides from whenever those leaked. I’m sure there’s been movement since.
taking econ off the table bc it’s just inflation, seems plausible you could come up w non racist moderate stances on police, crime, education, social security, poverty, foreign policy, gov’t debt, etc. to me
the crucial thing—which you get from the MGP interview w Ezra—is you don’t have to have some -ism or coherence prompting your moderation. just has to make sense to your voters.
I think another common thread among current moderates is they're probably going to be have policies and rhetoric that is more zero sum than generic D, since the marginal voter is now **way** more zero sum than generic D.
By "zero sum" do you mean specifically redistributionist from X to Y? Or that bc the environment shifted away from Dem policies that we have to give up more to get them back? I don't think I'm totally following.
Yeah just in general it means trying to steer as much discourse as possible to high salience things that are 50-50 or close to it and away from low salience things where D trust is higher (Will not that Dems have more trust on housing probably b/c Dems talk about housing)
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Perhaps education is the latter but it’s plausibly just a casualty of the former.
You would def hope to see more of an advantage tho I feel you.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2023-07-28/democrats-cede-trustworthiness-on-education-to-gop-in-key-battleground-states
Hope that Republicans start doing budget cuts again?
And I guess we need to refocus on phonics, basic instruction, things like that.
Yeah it basically boils down to "talk more about health care" and I guess talking about housing is good b/c it's kinda business coded.
taking econ off the table bc it’s just inflation, seems plausible you could come up w non racist moderate stances on police, crime, education, social security, poverty, foreign policy, gov’t debt, etc. to me